Vox Populi Quotes

• Cuando se dijo por primera vez que el sol estaba quieto y el mundo giraba, el sentido común de la humanidad declaró que la doctrina era falsa; pero el viejo dicho de Vox populi, vox Dei [la voz del pueblo es la voz de Dios], como todo filósofo sabe, no es de fiar para la ciencia.

  Charles Darwin

  Eye, Voice, People

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• The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Latin, Voice, People

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• Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

  Alcuin

  Voice, People, Crowds

  Letter 164 in 'Works' (1863) vol. 1, p. 438

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• Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

  Alcuin

  Voice, People, Madness

  800 Letter to Charlemagne.

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• The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the essence of fundamentalism - paternalism, authority, and charity - and the messy imperatives of democracy, "the din of the vox populi" once derided by Abram Vereide. It's the difference between false unity, preached from above, and real solidarity, pledged between brothers and sisters - the kinds who are always bickering.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Brother, Real, Essence

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• I hear [my Twitter followers] say, you know, 'Bob Rae, you're an asshole'. [...] I'm working my way and trying to represent the people and speaking in Question Period and here we have vox populi, the thoughtful man on the street, 'you are an asshole!'. Thank you very much. I read it on my Twitter and I get up and ask a question.

  Bob Rae

  Thoughtful, Men, People

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• Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, Years, Hip Hop

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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